I couldn’t write a series of posts on technology and femdom without touching on the stupidity of auto-suggest. If there’s a single thing that bugs me about web search and browsers, it would be this.
On the one hand, my phone’s web browser is incredibly keen to suggest this site. I just have to type ‘f’ into the address bar and it pops this site up as an option. That can make it a touch nerve wracking when I’m out in a bar and someone borrows my phone to look at something. Pretty much any adult site I’ve visited can pop up based on just a single letter entered into the address bar.
On the other hand, Google’s search suggestions are incredible prudish. I can type ‘femdom’ into the search box and it still will not give me any query suggestions. At that point, what does it think I’m looking for? Who is going to accidentally type ‘femdom’ in and get upset at the suggestions that might pop up? There’s not a lot of ambiguity there. Similarly, its image search really resists showing porn. Searching for ‘domme‘ returns medieval architecture and ‘spanking‘ returns a lot of images of children being hit.
All this means that in some cases a single letter is enough to trigger a porn site prompt, and in others a very precise and unambiguous query fails to trigger it. Good job tech companies. That’s a spectacularly bad job of understanding user intent.
The image is another example of a sexy cellphone selfie. I’m afraid I don’t know who created it.
Maybe you can turn ‘autosearch’ off… or delete history? i’ve had same problem.
This is a WONDERFUL pic, thank you!
sara
It’s not so much auto search on the phone as auto suggest. And I actually do like the feature – I just wish it wasn’t so aggressive. It saves time. It just needs to wait till I’ve type ‘femd’ before popping up a femdom link!
Glad you liked the picture. I thought it was a fun one!
-paltego